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on the late Tfieologtcal Controversies at Geneva . 5 £ 3
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Dissenters have " given an example of integrity" by their open secession : but he also affirms that their " heads have put out several pieces with the same intention , " of depreciating- the
Established Church , and that their conduct has been Ci indecorous and blameable . " To the account already given of this Congregational Church , ( pp . 405 —407 , ) I need not add much . It has two pastors , M . / Emilius Guers and
M . Empaytaz . M . Gonthier , one of its first pastors , finished a sliort , but holy and useful , course In January 1823 . From personal knowledge of him and M . Guers ^ I feel myself greatly honoured in having an opportunity of bearing testimony to their intellectual and moral characters , their
acquirements in literature and theology , their scriptural piety and zeal , their noble disinterestedness , and the hard and painful sacrifices which they made to their honest convictions . The
members of this church are partly Paedobaptist and partly of the opposite persuasion $ but they can maintain purity and harmony , without rigid uniformity . They make no terms of communion but the evidence of sincere
religion , and acknowledge no ecclesiastical regulations but those of the New Testament . Their place of worship is a part of a private building , fitted up as they have been able , and
much too small for their congregation . I have been assured by persons worthy of credit , that , had they a sufficient place of meeting , they would probably have a thousand attendants . But , in
a walled and densely built city it is scarcely possible to obtain buildingground , and only at a tremendous price . It would be worthy of the liberality and munificence of the Council of State to grant them the use of one of the churches , at hours when it is not used by the old congregation .
Such a boon would injure no one ; it would be only similar to the joint use of the same church which , in some parts of Switzerland , ( as I have read , ) is enjoyed by Protestants and Catholics ; and it is well merited by a moral and exemplary body of Christians whom a wise and generous government will soon learn to appreciate .
1 know of no publications from the members of this church which can fall under JVL C . ' s censure . Perhaps
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M . Bos | may be one of their number ; of his Jpamphlet I have given some information before . ( P . 473 . ) Nothing could be more cruelly unjust than to represent , as in any way disrespectful , the Address of this church ,
cited in p . 406 . That would be , indeed , to realize the fable of the wolf and the lamb . Neither can I say any thing about the charge of " indecorous and blameable conduct , " except , that it is contrary to all my conceptions of probability , and that , in the absence of all evidence . I cannot believe
it-X . M . Ccesnr Malan . I must content myself with a most imperfect notice of this excellent man ; or I should transgress ^ ll reasonable limits M . Chenevikre has occupied twentytwo columns in aspersing him : but
to any serious person who will impartially reflect , I think that the tenor of those pages will furnish its own antidote . I must also request the candid reader to turn to pp . 323 , 324 , 405—409 , of this volume .
In the Established Church of Geneva there are about 25 pastors , who serve the five churches of the city , according to a system of rotation . These , with the country pastors of the Canton , constitute the Venerable
Company ; and , with the addition of some Lay-Elders and Goverament-Officers , they form the Consistory , ( I request the reader thus to make correct a clause in page 324 . ) There is also a class , whether limited in number or
not I do not know , called Ministers , These are young men who have gone through the eight or nine years of study in the Academy , have received the honourable testimonials of the
Professors , and have been approved and ordained by the Company . These are called upon to preach as circurnstunces require ; and are promoted to vacancies in the pastorship , as they occur . Of this class was M . Malan .
He was also one of the Regents , or Tutors , of the College . Till 1816 or 1816 his religious views resembled those of the majority of his clerical brethren ; his eloquence procured him
admiration in . the pulpit ; and his high order of accomplishments made him a favourite in the literary and polished circles . Serious reflection , the conversation of Dr . Mason of New York ¦ - - r ~— ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ~ - ¦ ¦— ™~ ¦ ¦ ¦
^^^ ^^ ' ™ — - ™< vv ^•^ ' ^^"" — " — — — " ' —^^ * ^^ pw - ^^^ JB » J ^ . J ^ ^^—and of Mr . Haldane , and the devout stmdy of the New Testament , were the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 523, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/11/
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